Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-04-13
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At New York City, between IL and
l2 o'clock, IN the night of April Z, while
nearly all of 40 families, comprising about
200 persons, were asleep in tho fve,story
out in the bakery in the basement, and
first, second, and third and special. calls
thronged the vicinity with fire apparatus
and ambulances from the hospitals. Smoke
filed the tenement but the f1remen swarmed
through the house directing the occupants
to the fire escapes. All but 20 persons were
were injured were helped out by f1remen
and the ambulance corps. Though the
possibilities of q dreadful disaster were
great the actual injuries are not fatal in
any case. Loss about $4,000.
At Ingersoll. Ont, on the 4th, a
milldam was torn open by a freshet and a
tenement house occupied by four families
John Bowman ana his daughter, a young
man named Mclean, and a child whose
name is unknown were drowned, and q
man named Laird and his daughter are
missing.
At Reading. Pa, during Monday
forenoon, 4th inst, a large quantity Of
dynamite used for blasting and stored in a
frame shanty on the outskirts of the city
exploded. Andrew Lusti had both legs
broken of n will die. Two Italians were
fearfully injured, n having his body torn
open. Samuel Wertz was also badly hurt.
The Lochiel Iron Company's fur
mace and the furnace of the Paxton Iron
Works, at Harrisburg, Pa, lave shut down,
| and it is said that the Cressonia Nail Works
will also cease operations, on account of
freight rate changes resulting from the
interstate commerce law. This throws $50
mon out Of work.
Officers Of the Utica police force AZ
rived at the suspension bridge, N. ", and
later left with Charles O'Rorke, the sus-
large Colts revolver and a mask were
found in his possessions. O'Rourke says he
is q native of Texas and q cowboy by pro-
~tession.s S's n
The wcrkmen at the ruins of the
Richmond House fire, in Buffalo, N. Y,
found portions of a charred human body en-.
tirely. beyond recognition. The remains
1t is thought to be the dead body of Mark
Osborne, the day clerk. .
A party of sealers went from the
shore of the channel on the west coast o1
Newfoundland on a sealing expedition
The ice moved seward, carrying the mer
with 1t. Two bodies nave been recovered
from the ice foe. The men had been
frozen to death.
BY the explosion of a Kerosene
lamp in a house at Bridgeport, Conn, OF
the 18th, the building burned and so quickly
that the % inmates got out with difficulty
and four people, from jumping out of win
dows were probably fatally injured.
The Cunard line steamer Pavonia
Capt. Mckay, which sailed from Queens
town April 9TH for Boston, collided with an,
sunk a fishing smack Of Cape Clear. Tw
Of the occupants OF the smack wer
drowned. .5#
Two freight trainscoilided at Bolivar
Pa, on the 4th, and two cars OF cotton too
fire and burned. The road war blocked 70
Il hours bya the wreck and the loss sustaine
by the Pennsylvania company was quit
large. VII
The Beechel memorial committe ha
extended an informal invitation to d.
Parker, Of London, to preach the memori.
sermon OF the late Rev. HI. w. Beecher o
the anniversary Of his birthday June IA.
Asthe Albany,express run'throughth
city OF. Charleston, Mass, on the evening (